England vs Hungary LIVE: Nations League result, final score and reaction tonight
Follow all the action from Molineux as the Three Lions play their final game of the summer
This can no longer be written off as meaningless. The Nations League has instead produced England’s worst-ever home defeat to a side from outside the old “home nations”, and worst in all since 1928, as Hungary symbolically surpassed their own famous 6-3 of 1953.
We might well see a similar inquest. This obviously can’t be dismissed as just the Nations League any more. There felt more to it than fatigue or circumstances.
Gareth Southgate has real problems to solve, as his team lost momentum and - perhaps most relevantly - he lost the support of a significant section of a home crowd. It is the first show of the sort of negativity that used to sour so many campaigns and managerial reigns of the past, and this went really toxic.
Southgate and his players were repeatedly booed, with that reaching a crescendo as Harry Maguire was brought on to shore up a defence that had lost John Stones to a red card.
It was that kind of night, where it was hard to settle on what the low point was. It just kept getting worse. Follow all the reaction as England lose to Hungary below:
England 0-3 Hungary
85 mins: England need this game to end now. Kyle Walker is the most recent player to go in the book for a lunging tackle on Nego. The game is gone, the motivation is gone.
It’s been a poor international break for the Three Lions. They need a reset and a refresh before the final two Nations League games in September.
England 0-3 Hungary
82 mins: Over in Germany the hosts have moved into a 5-0 lead over Italy. Timo Werner has a brace.
Red card! John Stones has picked up a second yellow card for absolutely nothing. Daniel Gazdag runs into Stones and falls to the floor clutching his face. Stones has no idea he was even there but the referee must have seen the aftermath of Gazdag rolling around on the floor and pulls out the red card!
England 0-3 Hungary (Nagy, 80’)⚽️
80 mins: Terrible night for England. Zsolt Nagy seals the deal for Hungary by smoking a shot in from the front edge of the box after Hungary break on the counter-attack.
Hungary have been clinical tonight. They’ve had four shots on target and have scored three of them!
England 0-2 Hungary
78 mins: Off the bar! Mason Mount receives the ball on the left wing and comes inside before flicking the ball into the box. Harry Kane meets it in space and whips his header towards goal only for it to rattle into the crossbar and bounce clear!
England 0-2 Hungary
75 mins: Close! Marc Guehi lifts a long ball over to Raheem Sterling who stretches for the ball and manages to bring it under control. He spins away from a defender and guides it back to Phil Foden who fizzes an effort wide of the nearest post.
England 0-2 Hungary
72 mins: Things have gone from bad to worse for England. They’re staring down the barrel of another defeat to Hungary and the worse thing is it isn’t really surprising based on their performance.
Hungary have been more disciplined, more determined and have come here with a clear gameplan.
GOAL! England 0-2 Hungary (Sallai, 69’) ⚽️
69 mins: He’s done it again! Kalvin Phillips has the ball nicked off him by Martin Adam who carries it up to the box before sliding a pass wide of Kyle Walker to play in Roland Sallai. He runs onto the ball and belts it with the outside of his right foot, Aaron Ramsdale has no time to react and Hungary have a second goal!
England 0-1 Hungary
66 mins: Martin Adam replaces Adam Szalai for Hungary as Phil Foden makes an appearance for England. He replaces Jude Bellingham.
England now have Sterling, Kane, Foden, Mount and Saka on the pitch. Can they create something and score an equaliser?
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